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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May, 1868, Paris, France – 15 April, 1927) was a French
France

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 journalist
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 and author
Author

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 of detective fiction
Detective fiction

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.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera is a French language novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910....
 (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney, Sr.

Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an United States actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema....
; and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
's 1986 musical
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....
.






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Gastonleroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May, 1868, Paris, France – 15 April, 1927) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
 and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 of detective fiction
Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective , either professional or amateur, investigate a crime, usually murder. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime fiction....
.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera is a French language novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910....
 (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney, Sr.

Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an United States actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema....
; and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
's 1986 musical
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....
. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom
Phantom (novel)

Phantom is a 1990 novel by Susan Kay, based on the Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera....
 by Susan Kay
Susan Kay

Susan Kay is a writer.She is most known for her book, Phantom , which expands upon the history of Erik, the hideous, brilliant character from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, in an episodic format of seven chapters from different characters' points of view - first Erik's mother, immediately revolted by her own son; then Er...
.

Leroux went to school in Normandy
Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany and Picardy and comprises territory in northern France and the Channel Islands....
 and studied law
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 in Paris
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, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter
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 and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris
Paris

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 newspaper Le Matin
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. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution of 1905

The 1905 Russian Revolution is a historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire, leading to the establishment of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906....
. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune
Paris Commune

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, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war
Franco-Prussian War

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He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède
Arthur Bernède

Arthur Bern?de was a France writer and playwright. In 1919, Bern?de joined forces with actor Ren? Navarre, who had played Fant?mas in the Louis Feuillade Serial , and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Joseph Rouletabille, to launch the Soci?t? des Cin?romans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously....
 formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels ....
), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille
Joseph Rouletabille

Joseph Rouletabille is a fictional character created by Gaston Leroux, a France writer and journalist....
. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

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's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
's in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.

Leroux's novels


French Titles

The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille
  • 1907- Le mystère de la chambre jaune.
  • 1908- Le parfum de la dame en noir.
  • 1912- Rouletabille chez le tsar.
  • 1914- Le château noir.
  • 1914- Les étranges noces de Rouletabille.
  • 1917- Rouletabille chez Krupp.
  • 1921- Le crime de Rouletabille.
  • 1922- Rouletabille chez les Bohémiens.


Adventures of Chéri-Bibi
  • 1913- Chéri-bibi.
  • 1913- Chéri-Bibi et Cécily.
  • 1919- La nouvelle aurore : Palas et Chéri-Bibi & Fatalitas !.
  • 1925- Le coup d' état de Chéri-Bibi.


Other novels
  • 1897- Le petit marchand de romme de terre frites.
  • 1897- Un homme dans la nuit.
  • 1902- Les trois souhaits
  • 1902- Une petite tête.
  • 1903- La double vie de Théophraste Longuet.
  • 1908- Le roi mystère.
  • 1908- L'homme qui a vu le diable.
  • 1909- Le lys.
  • 1909- Le fauteuil hanté.
  • 1910- La reine de Sabbat.
  • 1910- Le fantôme de l' Opéra.
  • 1911- Balaoo.
  • 1911- Le dîner des bustes.
  • 1912- La hache d'or.
  • 1912- L' épouse du soleil.
  • 1913- Première aventures de chéri-Bibi.
  • 1916- La colonne infernale.
  • 1916- Confitou.
  • 1916- L' homme qui revient de loin.
  • 1917- Le capitaine Hyx - La bataille invisible.
  • 1920- Le coeur cambriolé.
  • 1921- Le sept de trèfle.
  • 1923- La poupée sanglante - La machine à assassiner.
  • 1924- Le Noël du petit Vincent-Vincent.
  • 1924- Not'olympe.
  • 1924- Les ténébreuses : La fin d'un monde & du sang sur la Néva.
  • 1924- Hardis-Gras ou le fils des trois pères.
  • 1924- La coquette punie ou la farouche aventure.
  • 1924- La femme au collier de velours.
  • 1925- La mansarde en or.
  • 1926- Les Mohicans de Babel.
  • 1927- Les chasseurs de danses.
  • 1927- Mister Flow.
  • 1990- Pouloulou. (Found by Leroux's granddaughter in the attic.)


English Titles

The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille
  • The Mystery of the Yellow Room
    The Mystery of the Yellow Room

    The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels ....
     (1908)
  • The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1909)
  • The Secret of the Night (1914)
  • The Sleuth Hound aka The Octopus of Paris (1926)


Adventures of Chéri-Bibi
  • Cheri-Bibi and Cecily aka Missing Men (1923)
  • The Veiled Prisoner (1923)
  • Wolves of the Sea aka The Floating Prison
  • The Dark Road (1924)
  • Nomads of the Night aka The Dancing Girl (1925)
  • The New Idol (1928)


Independent works
  • The Double Life (1904) aka The Man with the Black Feather (1912)
  • The Bride of the Sun (1915)
  • The Man Who Came Back From the Dead (1916)
  • The Phantom of the Opera
    The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera is a French language novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910....
     (1911)
  • Balaoo (1913)
  • The Haunted Chair (1922)
  • The Kiss that Killed (1924)
  • The Machine to Kill (1924)
  • The Adventures of a Coquette (1926)
  • The Man of a Houndred Faces aka Mister Flow (1930)
  • Lady Helena
  • The Vase of Camelry (1922)


External links

  • (in French)